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Daniel Rachel
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Musician-turned-Award Winning Author
'WITH THE FAR-RIGHT AGAIN ON THE RISE, THIS IS A SHOCKING & HIGHLY NECESSARY BOOK'

Book of the Week!
@yorkshirepost.co.uk @duncanseamanyp.bsky.social

15/11 MANCHESTER @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social

Buy Now
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November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE!

An evening with @billybragg.bsky.social Daniel Rachel & host Miranda Sawyer

Rough Trade East
24.11
@roughtradebooks.bsky.social
Not to be missed...book a ticket now:

dice.fm/event/eoakqw...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL-LIVERPOOL!

Thank you to everyone who came to the British Music Experience last night: lively debate w/the brilliant Mike Morris @wowfest.bsky.social

Book sold out!

And a welcome surprise at @roughtrade1976.bsky.social

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
geni.us/ThisAintRock...
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
'HITLER'S IN THE CHARTS AGAIN!'
Not the Exploited - but a Top 20 This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll playlist....

...by artists who have written with great sensitivity about fascism and Nazi atrocities

open.spotify.com/playlist/6P8...
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
PUBLICATION DAY!!

Do buy a copy of This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll. Or if you have a copy / see it in a bookshop take a picture - it be wonderful to share.

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL (A Rough Trade Book of the Year)
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Pic: Bridiefilm
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I am absolutely thrilled This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll has been named
A Rough Trade Book of the Year

EVENTS
6/11 LIVERPOOL
15/11 MANCHESTER
23/11 LONDON
24/11 LONDON Rough Trade East w/ @billybragg.bsky.social
+ @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
AMAZING LAUNCH

Thank you to everybody who packed out Jamboree & the Oysland Band for a wonderful night of Klezmer!

The atmosphere & warmth in the room was the perfect way to celebrate @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social THIS AIN'T ROCK ''N' ROLL!

6.11.25
geni.us/ThisAintRock...

Photos: @bridiefilm
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
‘A catalogue of rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely’
JON SAVAGE

Great review by Punk's acclaimed chronicler.

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
geni.us/ThisAintRock...
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
'FROM WEARING NAZI UNIFORMS TO FLAUNTING SWASTIKAS, THE BOOK ASTUTELY TRACES THE GLOBAL RISE OF FASCISM & ITS REVERBERATIONS IN POP CULTURE'

Brilliant review in the Irish Times

This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
geni.us/ThisAintRock...
October 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
HYPNOTISE THE MASSES
'The staging was the brilliance of Albert Speer’s theatrical mind... a key source of inspiration for many artists from Bowie to Bryan Ferry to Lemmy.'

Interview in OCB

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
geni.us/ThisAintRock...

pink8manifesto.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
October 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Excited to receive the first copy..... just wanted to share....

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
geni.us/ThisAintRock...
October 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
'A DEEPLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING WORK & LONG OVER DUE'
@mojomagazine.bsky.social

FAB 4-star review by
@johnharris1969.bsky.social

A shocking & absorbing chronological account of pop music’s complicated history with fascism & the imagery surrounding it.

geni.us/ThisAintRock...
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I Catch the Paper Boy
THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL; DAVID BOWIE!

The dark side of David Bowie - Pop's enduring obsession with the Nazis

An explosive double-page cover story in @thetimes.com
Saturday Review by Will Hodgkinson

Pre-order THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
geni.us/ThisAintRock...

#davidbowie
October 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL: In the Studio + @thetimes.com

Day 2 recording the Audiobook. Ahead of news of a major exclusive feature & interview in this weekends Saturday Times!

geni.us/ThisAintRock...

#thisaintrocknroll #davidbowie#Nazis#FascismWhite @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL Billy Bragg!

To celebrate the publication of my new book about Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich

Join lively conversation w/anti-fascist activist
@billybragg.bsky.social
Moderated by esteemed journalist Miranda Sawyer

@roughtrade1976.bsky.social
24.11.25
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
SOME MIGHT SAY....COOL BRITANNIA IS BACK....

I'll be discussing Then & Now on BBC World Service Sunday 8.30am

Buy the current Amazon No.1 Bestseller
Don't Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia
www.amazon.co.uk/.../14091807...

#Oasis #coolbritannia #liamgallagher
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A Great Night in the House of Fun!

A Madness film premiere & 2 Tone chatter.

Thank you to everybody who came to Rock 'n' Roll Book Club at The Ivy House

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story
geni.us/TooMuchTooYo...?
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
HELLO! GOOD TO BE BACK!

To celebrate their return to the live stage

ISLE OF NOISES Without doubt the finest book I've read about songwriters-Noel Gallagher

DONT LOOK BACK IN ANGER 'The tumult, the triumph & the toilery of the 90s-Shaun Keaveny

OASIS: KNEBWORTH-The Sunday Times Bestseller

#Oasis
July 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
IT'S MADNESS...A UK PREMIERE!

Come & join the Nutty Boys for the British premiere of Prince of Ska, Kings of Pop feat Suggs, Bedders, Lynval Golding, Rhoda Dakar: one of the country's greatest ever singles' band

2 Tone Night w/Daniel Rachel
Thu 17 Jul
#madness #2tone #suggs #toomuchtooyoung
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
An Evening With:

My first chance to discuss This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll' leads to conversation with Lee Brackstone about The Beatles, Joy Division &Sid Vicious!

Thank you for a great evening
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@wnbooks.bsky.social
@thesociallondon.bsky.social

geni.us/ThisAintRock...
June 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm super excited to announce my new book:

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich

'A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music’s complicated history with fascism & the imagery surrounding it'
30.10.25

geni.us/ThisAintRock...
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
ON MY TELEVISION!
A cameo appearance in a great documentary...

Tonight on Sky Arts, 9pm: @paulineblack.bsky.social : A 2 Tone Story

#theselecter #paulineblack #2tone
April 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
VIA VENEZIA!

A 2-minute 2-Tone film from Italy...with dancing, debating and destruction!

To celebrate the Italian publication of Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story

#ska #reggae #2Tone #thespecials #theselecter #madness #theBeat
March 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'Astute and thorough'
AN UNSTOPPABLE MARCH

A wonderful feature on Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story in Harper's Magazine

Forthcoming Events
14 March - Venice, Italy
15 March - Padova, Italy

#2tone #Reggae #ska #thespecials
February 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
WHEN IN ROME!
Talks and DJ sets in Rome & Bologna!

Thank you Robertò Hellnation , Crombie Media and everyone who came to celebrate the Italian publication of Too Much Too Young

#TooMuchTooYoung #ska #2Tone #reggae #thespecials
December 9, 2024 at 5:03 PM